I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
We cannot escape history.
May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.
Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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